{"podcast":{"title":"The Messy City Podcast","slug":"the-messy-city-podcast-6070040","podcast_index_feed_id":6070040,"rss_url":"https://api.substack.com/feed/podcast/1271500.rss","website_url":"https://kevinklinkenberg.substack.com/podcast","image_url":"https://substackcdn.com/feed/podcast/1271500/7260785aa3e48f4ea76ebcd046c98a31.jpg","author":"Kevin Klinkenberg","episode_count":126,"summary":"Embracing change, uncertainty and local initiative for our cities and towns","last_synced_at":"2026-07-29T02:19:59.713844+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-messy-city-podcast-6070040"},"episode":{"title":"Seeking Faith-Based Solutions to Housing","slug":"seeking-faith-based-solutions-to-housing","published_at":"2026-04-30T13:00:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-messy-city-podcast-6070040/seeking-faith-based-solutions-to-housing","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-messy-city-podcast-6070040","url":"https://kevinklinkenberg.substack.com/p/seeking-faith-based-solutions-to","audio_url":"https://api.substack.com/feed/podcast/195881770/e9d27f03e22ce8731b12dbaf0febd439.mp3","summary":"Every so often, an idea comes along that makes so much sense it makes you wonder - why haven’t we been talking more about this? In that vein comes today’s guest, Eli Smith, who is pioneering something called the Faith-Based Housing Initiative . Eli describes it well, but there’s a fascinating juncture here of issues related to churches and faith institutions of all kinds; the societal issues around loneliness; and the lack of housing - especially meaningful, community-based housing. Eli and his partners help cohorts of faith-based institutions in certain markets to identify how they can develop housing themselves, often on excess land they aren’t using. While this runs up against a whole other set of issues that churches and temples face, it offers a glimpse at something very hopeful as well. Find more content on The Messy City on Kevin’s Substack page . Music notes: all songs by low standards, ca. 2010. Videos here . If you’d like a CD for low standards, message me and you can have one for only $5. Intro: “ Why Be Friends ” Outro: “ Fairweather Friend ” Get full access to The Messy City at kevinklinkenberg.substack.com/subscribe","meta_description":"Every so often, an idea comes along that makes so much sense it makes you wonder - why haven’t we been talking more about this? In that vein comes today’s…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":3143,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/the-messy-city-podcast-6070040/episodes/seeking-faith-based-solutions-to-housing/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-messy-city-podcast-6070040/seeking-faith-based-solutions-to-housing.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}